I help people understand their relationship with food

I wasn’t always a mindful eating coach. For years I worked in corporate wellness in Dublin, designing programs that told people what to eat and what to avoid. We had all the metrics — calorie counts, macro breakdowns, food lists. And honestly? Almost nobody stuck with it.

Then something shifted. I started noticing my own relationship with food was broken. I’d eat lunch at my desk while answering emails, finish an entire packet of biscuits without tasting a single one, and find myself reaching for snacks at 3pm not because I was hungry but because the afternoon felt overwhelming. That’s when it clicked — the problem wasn’t the food itself. It was that I’d completely disconnected from my body’s signals.

I pursued formal training in mindfulness-based eating psychology at the Dublin campus of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, then specialized in somatic eating awareness at UCC’s Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation. But the real learning came from running pilot workshops in Cork and Limerick community health centres. I watched people rediscover their senses — actually tasting their food again, noticing when they were genuinely full, understanding what emotional triggers looked like.

That’s when I founded Nourish Mindful Ltd. Over the past decade, we’ve worked with more than 2,000 people across Ireland. And I’ve learned that lasting change doesn’t come from restriction. It comes from awareness.